[Lorenz Hölscher]

Hi everyone,

if someone protects a Word2003-DOC with a password and converts this
file into Word2007-DOCX then the former password is wrong. Did anyone
find a solution to this?

Both passwords have been set by an add-in so that we're sure they are
correct.

Thanks, Lorenz

[Tony Jollans]

I don't see this problem. How are you converting the document, and how are
you saving the document? And what do you mean by 'both passwords'?

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Tony

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"Lorenz Hölscher" wrote in message
...
Hi everyone,

if someone protects a Word2003-DOC with a password and converts this
file into Word2007-DOCX then the former password is wrong. Did anyone
find a solution to this?

Both passwords have been set by an add-in so that we're sure they are
correct.

Thanks, Lorenz

[Lorenz Hölscher]

Hi Tony,

Tony Jollans schrieb:
I don't see this problem. How are you converting the document, and how are
you saving the document? And what do you mean by 'both passwords'?
users in the company are working either with w2003 or w2007. Those who
made a w2003 document (which is a form and therefore automatically
password protected) send this to another user. Some of them sometimes
use w2007, so they convert their file into a docx-document.
When opening the docx, an add-in needs to unprotect the file with the
same password and stops because w2007 doesn't accept the w2003
password. We checked it manually: a w2003-doc with password, converted
into w2007-docx, cannot be unprotected with this password!

So what to do?

bye, Lorenz

[Tony Jollans]

I hadn't registered you meant protected for forms, sorry, I was thinking of
encryption. It rings a bell, although the details escape me for the moment,
but I cannot recreate the situation; when I convert a .doc form to a .docx
form, it still unprotects with the same password (manually and in VBA).

What version of Word 2007 are your users using - SP1, or SP2? And, thank you
for the extra detail but you haven't answered the questions: how are the
users converting the document, and what are _both_ passwords (you only
mention one).

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Enjoy,
Tony

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"Lorenz Hölscher" wrote in message
...
Hi Tony,

Tony Jollans schrieb:
I don't see this problem. How are you converting the document, and how
are
you saving the document? And what do you mean by 'both passwords'?
users in the company are working either with w2003 or w2007. Those who
made a w2003 document (which is a form and therefore automatically
password protected) send this to another user. Some of them sometimes
use w2007, so they convert their file into a docx-document.
When opening the docx, an add-in needs to unprotect the file with the
same password and stops because w2007 doesn't accept the w2003
password. We checked it manually: a w2003-doc with password, converted
into w2007-docx, cannot be unprotected with this password!

So what to do?

bye, Lorenz

[Lorenz Hölscher]

Hi Tony,

Tony Jollans schrieb:
What version of Word 2007 are your users using - SP1, or SP2? And, thank you
for the extra detail but you haven't answered the questions: how are the
users converting the document, and what are _both_ passwords (you only
mention one).
Q1: My version is 12.0.4518.1014 MSO 12.0.6036.5000 (seems to be no
service pack), but I don't know what the company has installed.

Q2: I'm not sure how the users are converting the documents. The
company has installed the w2003-compatibility-pack (for those who are
still working with w2003), so they might use that SaveAsW2007 option.
We are external programmers and get their documents via email. To see
this error, we opened a w2003-doc with the w2007 (showing
[compatibility mode] in the top most caption) and then save it as a
w2007-DOCX.

Q3: The "both" passwords are one single password only. The w2003-doc
is protected by a w2003-AddIn when using one of the templates and the
w2007-AddIn has been copied from the old AddIn (with a new ribbon
interface) und uses the same code/password to unprotect and protect
the document.

Hope this helps to enlighten the darkness ;-

bye, Lorenz

[Lorenz Hölscher]

Hi Tony and all the others,

we found new hints! The error needs a macro with
Public const p_cstrPW = "abc"

ActiveDocument.Protect wdAllowOnlyFormFields, True, p_cstrPW
and another macro with
ActiveDocument.Unprotect p_cstrPW

Between running those two macros you have to save, close and open the
document. With a non-SP2 Office 2007 this will work correctly, with a
SP2 Office 2007 there is the "incorrect password" error!

Can anyone proove this?

Thanks, Lorenz